Reddit implemented a limit on old.reddit - 100 requests per 10 minutes
Reddit implemented a limit on old.reddit - 100 requests per 10 minutes
"There are no plans to get rid of Old Reddit." - reddit
Completely expected this, technically they are not removing it, just making it so shit no one would use it. Same move done by twitter when muskrat took over
The redesign doesn't really work, it just tells you to use their horrendous app or login to see any "unverified" content. What that is only they seem to know...
Anyone still relying on reddit's user generated data should use something like a redlib instance
Imma be honest, the only thing I use reddit for is the porn. Things are starting to pick up over here a bit, but for a while it was almost nothing.
Basically what I'm saying is that I don't really care what happens to Reddit anymore. I left with the exodus about a year ago and never looked back (except for the porn).
Drive your users away. It's a great idea.
They don't give a fuck about the site longterm. They got their IPO. Now they're after monetization at all costs to justify it to the shareholders. That the site goes to shit and falls apart in the long run is not their concern.
They cannot make me download their shit app, and when old.reddit dies then that’s when I stop going even my current once a month.
like for xitter they're so obsessed in blocking scrapers that they're blocking also many users
To think how many free content i gave to them 🤮 (now deleted)
Just quit Reddit a few days ago and haven't looked back. I remember when there was no viable alternative to Reddit, with all other platforms being very sparely populated, but a lot has changed since I recently got into Lemmy as there are actually people here!
After switching to Lemmy I've noticed I've been feeling a lot happier. Maybe that's just because of how social media companies design their service to be as addicting as possible, and they do so by making you feel angry. Everything here feels much calmer and more peaceful.
Beatings will continue until morale improves.
Remember to welcome the new users to Lemmy!
I just went to old.reddit.com and continually clicked links for 10 minutes, loading new pages and comment sections over and over again. I hit no limit.
Oh good, I wasn’t going crazy the last few months.
So I still hang out on reddit a bit, mostly for mechanical keyboards and sports stuff, and they are very clearly letting old.reddit, and therefore RES along with it, die on the vine. You have to pop over to new reddit to do certain administrative things, and you (or at least I) can only upload a single picture on a post, and you have to use the new interface to upload a gallery. Clicking on images now often takes you to a weird new-interface landing page instead of the image itself or a page with the old interface. I think they're going to erode the functionality until people give up and then say, "whelp... nobody was using it! Time to pull the plug!"
At which point I'm probably done. Then, Dystopia is almost the last iOS app standing but I don't think they're updating it much, so I'm probably out if/when they go too.
I've sort of accepted as a middle aged man with middle aged friends and senior citizen relatives that being tracked across mainstream social media is a thing that will be in my life, so it's not even ideological, really. Reddit is just a lot less pleasant to use on the new interfaces, with the new monetization mindset, and doesn't have the "killer app" of my actual friends and family, so it needs to be a pleasant experience and community, and not feel like I'm navigating a bot-farm ad-soaked beatdown every time I use it.
Another appreciation post from me. The less I use Reddit and YouTube the better my life is. I really don’t see a drawback here.
What the fuck! I fucking hate this. Who the fuck is thinking this is a fucking good idea bruh.(I still visit reddit but don't make post or comment)
They already fucked the layout of it up a while back so it is functionally the same as new reddit anyway.
BORU my only guilty pleasure. Nothing of value was lost
probably because it seems super easy to scrape
Good. More boomers will leave